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  • The Lighthearted Quest

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 1

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 1 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    When Julia Probyn's cousin and childhood friend Colin cuts off all contact with his family, it is down to Julia to find him. Setting sail for Morocco – the last place he was seen – and using her occupation as a journalist as a cover, Julia is ready for a fairly lighthearted quest. But Julia wasn't counting on the level of secrecy surrounding her cousin's disappearance.With the British consulate ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • At the Crossroads of Science and Faith: How to Reconcile Reason and Religion in an Age of Chaos

    by Rich Trzupek, Ann Bridges ...
    What lies at the crossroads of science and faith? Everything. Prepare to embark on a voyage of discovery. Advances in science add to our collective pool of knowledge, but not everyone realizes that those advances also reveal new mysteries leading to questions that seem increasingly unsolvable. Or as author Rich Trzupek observes, the more we know, the more we realize certain things are unknowable ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moments of Knowing

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Ann Bridge, besides being a famous author, was also, in her own words, “a person who frequently has, when awake, inexplicable 'knowings' of events taking place at a distance: and, in dreams, am informed, sometimes uncomfortably, of facts of which I can have no knowledge by normal means”.In this remarkable book, part memoir, part a personal statement, she wrote of a number of such moments taken ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Ginger Griffin

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Author of best-selling novel Peking Picnic, Ann Bridge brings us her second novel set amongst the diplomatic circle of Peking. First published in 1934, The Ginger Griffin tells the story of a young English woman who comes to Peking to live with her diplomatic uncle, on a quest to get over an unhappy love affair she soon finds herself falling into another.The Ginger Griffin combines romance and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Permission to Resign

    Goings-on in the corridors of power

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Anne Bridge, much beloved author of many works of fiction, focuses here on a point in her life that very nearly ruined her husband, and the prospects of her entire family.Whilst away with her ailing son in Switzerland, Bridge learns that her husband is not only to lose his position with the Diplomatic Service, but will also be leaving with his good name in tatters. This blow is all the more ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Singing Waters

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Ann Bridge takes the little-known country of Albania for her background recreating the primitive grandeur of the country. The Albanian way of life demonstrates a noble standard of values that is rapidly disappearing under the pressure of modern materialism.Our protagonist is an unhappy and disillusioned young widow who travels to Albania as the result of a chance encounter on the Istanbul express. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Four-Part Setting

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Fleeing from her failed marriage, Rose Pelham seeks sanctuary in Peking, China, with her cousins, Anastasia and Antony Lydiard. The romantic attentions of Captain Hargreaves are a welcome distraction from her woes, but in the society of Anglicised 1920's Peking, it is hard for such relationships not to draw notice and create scandal.A long trek to the 'Mountain of a Hundred Flowers' offers a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dark Moment

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Feride and Nilüfer lead a elegant and comfortable life in Turkish aristocratic society until their lives are turned upside down by Atatürk's fight for independence after WWI. Finding strength and courage they didn't know they had, the women become pioneers for the freedom of their countrywomen.When their husbands leave to join general Atatürk in the fight for a new Turkey, Feride and Nilüfer dress ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Episode At Toledo

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 6

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 6 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    In the beautiful countryside of Portugal, erstwhile British secret agent Julia Probyn is to attend a royal wedding. But her former acquaintance, Countess Hetta Páloczy, the young Hungarian refugee, unwittingly gets them both tangled in Cold War intrigue. After Hetta accidentally uncovers a Communist plot to assassinate an American admiral in Spain, she is a marked woman yet again and must flee to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Place to Stand

    by Ann Bridge ...
    First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair of underground intrigue, through the machinations of her journalist fiancé. During the course of her activities she falls in love with a Polish ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Portuguese Escape

    A Julia Probyn Mystery, Book 2

    by Ann Bridge ...
    Series Book 2 - The Julia Probyn Mysteries
    Julia Probyn, journalist and amateur sleuth, must acquaint herself with the world of counterespionage. Hetta, a young Hungarian Countess, just released from behind the Iron Curtain, is drawn into a communist plot. Together the two young women will need all of their strength to unravel the schemes and machinations closing in from all sides.With Ann Bridge's talent for evoking place and mixing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Slick and Con Valley: Final Conflict

    by Ann Bridges, John Bridges ...
    It was always about life and death in Silicon Valley. The future is about a fight for the soul. But in a world of drones, robotics, AI and quantum, there is a more powerful emerging technology. And it is here now ready for the final battle.ANN BRIDGES places characters from her previous novels into a twist of science-fiction as a start-up faces disastrous consequences when their company's chatbot ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus